Climate Change News

UN’s Green Fund says all obstacles for pledges now removed

NEWS: Executive director hails Barbados meeting as start of an era for GCF, expects US$10 billion by end of 2014

LIVE BLOG: Negotiators meet in Bonn for the final round of talks ahead of Lima in December

NEWS: Diplomats from over 190 countries gather to work on plans for 2015 emissions reduction agreement

INTERVIEW: As Brazil’s government goes cool on forest protection, an indigenous leader speaks up for his people’s role

NEWS: Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping will rise up to 250% by 2050, finds study, as the UN fails to regulate the sector

NEWS: Former PM launches blistering critique of current leader in autobiography account of Australia’s carbon tax battle

NEWS: A Chinese city of 9 million people is getting in on emissions trading, despite being left out of an official pilot programme

NEWS: Stockholm says target would be in line with region’s capabilities, days before key meeting in Brussels

INTERVIEW: With little hard cash on the table at UN summit, biodiversity champions seek to link up with mainstream agendas

NEWS: Veteran of early green movement speaks out about the danger of neglecting other issues that threaten the planet

NEWS: Jean-Claude Juncker has nominated Slovakia’s Maros Sefcovic as vice president of “energy union”, which will oversee climate policy

COMMENT: The former UK environment secretary Owen Paterson has kicked off a debate on climate policy, but not the one the public want

NEWS: Research from five countries shows a gas glut will make no difference to global warming

NEWS: New submissions to UN indicate preference for more general rules on accounting and monitoring emissions

ANALYSIS: In Germany and Italy, for different reasons, governments are pushing dirty sources of energy as “transition fuels”

NEWS: Majuro counts cost of latest flooding as 30 ‘Pacific Warriors’ set off for Australia in canoes to highlight concerns

BLOG: Former advisor to UK prime minister Tony Blair lays out four ways to quash the despair of climate change

NEWS: Chief negotiator Todd Stern argues for a climate deal based on non-binding national commitments

NEWS: Europe’s emissions trading system is failing as steel and cement companies hoard excess pollution permits, warns Sandbag

INTERVIEW: Africa faces trials, but there’s no doubt it’s a force to be reckoned with at Paris, says Congo negotiator Tosi Mpanu Mpanu